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TAMPA, Fla. – Back in the day, as Geno Auriemma would say, UConn's regular season always ended with a crescendo. There was Notre Dame, until the Irish left the Big East. Then there was Louisville, until the Cardinals bolted the American Athletic Conference, too. In their place now — and likely for the foreseeable future — is South Florida. Like its two closing-night predecessors, the Bulls are the next best thing in the league in which UConn operates now. But as it relates to UConn, competition has been a theoretical concept this season in the AAC. Let's put it this way: If the regular season was the 1973 Belmont, Auriemma would be Ron Turcotte, bobbing in the...

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TAMPA, Fla. – Back in the day, as Geno Auriemma would say, UConn's regular season always ended with a crescendo. There was Notre Dame, until the Irish left the Big East. Then there was Louisville, until the Cardinals bolted the American Athletic...

STORRS — There are your average game days. UConn has 30 of them this regular season. They carry the program purposely from November to March. But let's admit, it's been hard to tell one from the other since the predatory Huskysaurus started terrorizing...

Richard Hamilton, who won an NCAA title with UConn and an NBA title with the Detroit Pistons, officially announced his retirement Thursday.
Hamilton has not played since being waived by the Bulls in the summer of 2013. He announced his decision on ESPN's...

R ichard Hamilton officially retired Thursday. Rip helped lead UConn to its first men's basketball national title in 1999 as the Huskies beat Duke, 77-74. He was the Final Four MVP and had a game-high 27 points in the title game. He was the Big...

Richard "Rip" Hamilton's youngest son, 4-year-old Parker, has a pretty good handle with the basketball, and can and will take his father to the cup every now and then.Hamilton, the former UConn All-American, NCAA and NBA champion who...

GREENVILLE, N.C. – It was a happy homecoming for Rodney Purvis, though not always a pleasant one.
Purvis, from Raleigh, about 90 minutes from Greenville, originally went to NC State, then transferred to UConn and, for some reason, some folks in North...

NEW ORLEANS — It's not unusual to hear professional athletes admit how compelled they are to perform because there might be someone in the stands who has come just to see them and might never have the chance again. Joe DiMaggio said it, Derek Jeter,...

NEW ORLEANS – More than a decade ago, Diana Taurasi punted a basketball to the roof of New Orleans Arena to celebrate winning UConn's third straight national championship and the end of her iconic career. That was very cool.
Two years ago, another...

NEW ORLEANS — After UConn dispatched Houston last week by 59 points at the XL Center, Geno Auriemma was asked whether he could remember what it was like hanging out on the wrong side of the scoreline.
Normally quick-witted, Auriemma thought for a few...

STORRS – It’s not a late night, and I don’t have an early flight. So let’s wrap up this UConn win over Tulane.
Home or away, wins are not easy in this American Conference. Tulane is scrappy, they haven’t packed it in for the season, as their recent win...

GREENVILLE, N.C. – It may have been the shortest halftime talk in UConn history. The Huskies, trailing by nine, were back on the floor within four minutes.
"I said enough, let's leave it at that," coach Kevin Ollie said. "And they took...

To celebrate the silver anniversary of the UConn men's 1989-90 Dream Season, The Courant will be looking at players and coaches who helped make that team special. Stories will appear periodically throughout the season.
After UConn won the national...

MEMPHIS – Visitors are accustomed to hearing the blues in Memphis, but it usually doesn't extend to basketball."This is the toughest stretch for us," Memphis coach Josh Pastner said. "Other than the beginning of the season, when I over...

HARTFORD — UConn's Gabby Williams has been a three-time selection as American Athletic Conference freshman of the week. And on Feb. 9 as the Huskies prepared to play undefeated South Carolina in the game of the year at Gampel Pavilion, she was nearing the...

After her playing career at UConn ended following the 1991-92 season, the one after the Huskies' first Final Four appearance, Meghan Culmo (then Meghan Pattyson) wasn't quite ready to head back to Doylestown, Pa.
There was more she wanted to do in...

Now back in Moscow, busier than ever, Svetlana Abrosimova remains a social media maven. She checks in with the world as often as time allows.So it did not surprise her to learn that Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, the precocious three-point shooter from...

HARTFORD — In this humdrum world of American Athletic Conference basketball, there are few nights when the anticipation of history not only moves to center stage but moves the audience excited about its arrival.
Say what you will about UConn's...

Syracuse University announced Wednesday that it has instituted a self-imposed postseason ban for the current men's basketball season as part of its case pending before the NCAA Committee on Infractions. The school initiated the case, which includes...

HOUSTON – UConn has some company in this difficult season. If the Huskies are destined to play in the NIT – and after losing 70-68 at Houston on Sunday, they will have to improve to get there – they will find some familiar foes.
Syracuse, Michigan,...

Anthony Marzi, who pitched UConn into the NCAA tournament with a memorable complete game win over Notre Dame in 2013, went undrafted after his senior season, but he signed with the Yankees on Saturday and will report to spring training on March 6.
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